I think about it every single day!
https://twitter.com/ylichterman/status/1445444925529616391
This. We can make this much better. We can live up to the promises we made the people of the world. We have to be open to change and demand better for all of us
https://twitter.com/nikkiusher/status/1445725618763546628
One of the biggest reasons for my professional reputation as "a maverick," besides my whole insistence that white supremacists were plotting some kind of big global power grab (how's that denial working out for you now, guys?) is my focus on nonwhite, non Anglo communities
And I contend now, as I always have, that that's a pretty fuckin stupid reason to consider a journalist "a maverick."
I mean, I'm leaning in to that reputation now. God knows sucking up to those mediocrities never got me anywhere
The reason I keep harping on this isn't because I have scores to settle, although I admit that part feels pretty good too. It's because I think it is important to point out that I was (for just one example) one of many journalists pointing out to San Diego's mainstream news orgs
that there was a nasty unexamined past and present to the region, that those of us who were covering those "fringe" movements were seeing them go mainstream, and that to not take it seriously would be disastrous. But all of us bringing that info to the mainstream were something
other than white males and thus we immediately got branded "troublemakers," "intense," "mavericks," "kooky," what have you. It's why I say diversity in journalism is resilience. White male journalists often cannot see past their overwhelming anti-woman and racist biases
but it is often invisible, as our society privileges the white male viewpoint as the right and proper mainstream "objective" view. They uphold the status quo rather than challenging it. And that's what happened in San Diego journalism when I insisted that people pay attention
Blue-eyed blonds who are too smug to ask questions don't often have a lot to fear amid white supremacist power grabs, and of course the far right knows this so they cultivate those biased reporters, which in turn leads to very stupid "Trump supporters in diners" stories
It's not just San Diego -- it's everywhere -- but as the San Diego region has been a disinfo lab for decades thanks to the proximity of the border and presence of Tom Metzger and who knows what else, it's highly concentrated in this region.
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